General McChrystal will lead the Advisory Council of three members of the initiative, called Join Forces, whose goal is to encourage businesses, schools, charitable and religious groups and local communities to recognize unusual stress is endured by families of military personnel in active service, reservists and veterans and strive to meet their needs.
The appointment of General McChrystal, Commander of elite special operations units prior to the mission in Afghanistan, can be seen as an effort to repair any perception of a civilian-military violation after his forced retirement.
More broadly, the new program is the recognition by the administration that, while the United States has been described as "a nation at war", the burden of combat is carried by less than 1% of the population. The army has been fighting for nearly a decade – since a month after the terrorist attacks of September 11 - the more long era continued conflict in the history of the country. And unlike previous wars, they have been carried out by a force of volunteers.
As a sign of what the White House priority gives the new program, it will be officially announced Tuesday by Michelle Obama, the first lady and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President.
In an e-mail statement, Ms. Obama said that it welcomes return of General McChrystal in public life because it would "continue to serve our country through this criticism to support the families of the military in our country."
"It will be a single Defender and powerful for millions of Americans who serve our country selflessly," said Ms. Obama. "This program will leverage great patriotism of our nation by asking all Americans to act and to ensure that our military families have the support they have earned."
General McChrystal, in a telephone interview Sunday, noted that ten years of combat carried out by a relatively small military force "demanded many sacrifices by families."
"This program will be a chance to focus the attention of people on how they can help and on the importance of help and provide opportunities for people to find things practical to support military families"He said.
After the publication of the controversial profile appeared in Rolling Stone magazine in June 2010, McChrystal General accepted responsibility for the comments made by his subordinates and resigned.
Since the departure of the army, he was teaching at Yale University and to make the towers on the conference circuit. He said Sunday that the invitation of the administration of the Obama to return to the public service must be considered as evidence to those in uniform and the American public, that there is no grudge on each side of the civilian-military divide.
"We can prove that it is something more grand," he said. "It sends a strong and positive message that he is taking care of our people."
Program Join Forces is guided and coordinated by the Center for new American security, a partisan Policy Institute. The Centre, which is led by two military veterans, has published a series of reports analyzing the stress on the members of the service a part of its "military welfare."
Join the General McChrystal of the Council of advisers are Patricia Shinseki, wife of General Eric k. Shinseki and Richard d. Parsons, Chairman of Citigroup. Mr. Parsons would represent the efforts of the community of the company to find jobs for veterans and members of the family men and women still in uniform, said the officials of the White House.
In the last year of its mandate as the Chief of army staff, General Shinseki has been criticized and then ostracized by senior officials of the Bush administration for its public assessment that a greater military force was needed to bring stability to the Iraq invasion - comments that proved to be accurate. After the election of President Obama, General Shinseki was invited out of retirement to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The new initiative aims to encourage businesses and community and charitable organizations to connect with families military as an act of public service, without being invited to do so in federal money or incentives taxsaid the officials. Companies will be asked to take additional measures to help the military members of the family to find a job when they move from one community to another, and schools will be asked to adopt programs to help children adapt to the pressure of having a parent in combat.
In addition, entertainment and media companies will be asked to produce programs and spots of public awareness that focus on the needs of families in active service, reservists and veterans. And medical groups will be encouraged to adopt programs tailored to the health needs of the military, veterans and their families.
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